Volume 19, Number 1—January 2013
Dispatch
Human Gastroenteritis Outbreak Associated with Escherichia albertii, Japan
Tadasuke Ooka, Eisuke Tokuoka, Masato Furukawa, Tetsuya Nagamura, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Kokichi Arisawa, Seiya Harada, and Tetsuya Hayashi
Table 1
Isolates from fecal specimens of party participants during outbreak of gastroenteritis associated with Escherichia albertii, Japan*
| Isolate | Origin of isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants, n = 44 |
Kitchen staff, n = 10 |
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| Symptomatic | Asymptomatic | No information | Symptomatic | Asymptomatic | ||
| E. albertii† | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| E. albertii† and E. coli O183:H18‡ | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| E. coli O183:H18‡ | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| None | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |
*None, negative for both pathogens.
†Initially identified as atypical (lactose negative) E. coli OUT:HNM harboring the intimin (eae) gene.
‡Initially identified as eae negative E. coli OUT:H18 harboring the Shiga toxin 2d and enteroaggregative E.coli heat-stable toxin genes.
